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Code · Virginia · Title 19.2 · Chapter 13

Code of Virginia § 19.2-204. Penalties on officers and jurors for failure of duty.

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A court whose officer fails without good cause, when it is his duty, to summon a grand jury and return a list of its names shall fine him twenty dollars. A person summoned and failing to attend a court as a grand juror shall be fined by the court not less than five dollars nor more than twenty dollars, unless, after being summoned to show cause against the fine, he gives a reasonable excuse for his failure.
Code 1950, § 19.1-159; 1960, c. 366; 1975, c. 495.
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